frostsparks

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qln
@qln

Yeah it's pretty easy to make text not show up in dark mode. Literally just set the text to black. Though, there's not really any reason somebody would manually change their text colour to black, since it's already set to black by default. Unless they were doing something weird on purpose.

But what if somebody wanted to make their text colour kinda purpley for some flourish, like this.

Actually... that's surprisingly almost readable on my computer monitor at least? Because that background is straight up #000000 black, which was probably on purpose to create as much contrast as possible for custom CSS.

It could actually be an issue when people want to create posts with things like this paper-like background though: customized light backgrounds without changing the default text colour. Could work the other way too, if people forget about light-mode. If you toggle on/off inverted colours you can see it's pretty bad. I think it's fine to have those edge cases though, and it comes down to user error if I'm not accounting for that feature.


And actually it could be used for some fun things where posts change based on the users settings/toggling the colours. So you can only read the beginning of this paragraph on dark mode, and the ending on light mode. I could see a lot of creative ways to use this to create interactive posts, maybe even little
games. ...! You sense something appear above.💡
something moves nearby...
As you reach up, you hear muffled laughter coming from the bottom-left corner. Could there be something invisible hiding there? You reach out your hand, and...

WOAH YOU FOUND ME!

Eggbug ahahhAHAHA that was FUN! We were playing hide and go seek! It was pretty funny watching you search up there for me. I was down in the corner the whole time!Hey uhh do you have any more :chunks: chunks? I got pretty hungry waiting for you to find me.
Toss a :chunks: chunk to Eggbug. Eggbug chews up the :chunks: chunk and most of it falls out of their mouth, onto the floor in scattered pieces.

"Haha! Okay your turn I'll count: 1... 2... 3... uhhhh oh yeah 4... 5..."


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in reply to @qln's post:

this post is absolutely amazing and is exactly why i love cohost. i first think i'm just reading someone's thoughts on a new feature of the website and all of the sudden i'm playing the role of archeologist Dunville Krokodo in my hunt of the ancient Purple Egg used by royalty in the early 1500s and is said to still be down here in this very cave

Thank you!!! :yeah: It definitely started as me wanting to just write my ideas while also demonstrating my ideas about the new feature. So, just the text disappearing and reappearing when you toggle "invert colours"

And then I was like "oh it could be fun to have an element clickable and maybe a variation between light/dark gives that away..." and then I just kept going because I was having fun. I liked how it ended up as a post that contains both just a few paragraphs of my thoughts AND a small game, both sharing the same space, and actually working together.